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In September 2015, President Barack Obama boasted that “greater prosperity and greater security — that’s what American and Chinese cooperation can deliver.” But by the time the Trump administration issued its first national security strategy...

In 1945, France still had the world’s second-largest colonial empire, covering almost one-tenth of the Earth’s surface. Twenty years later, most of it was gone, after two bitter and bloody wars for national independence in...

In the aftermath of the Democrats’ disastrous loss to Donald Trump, the party and its orbiting rings of lower-level apparatchiks, consultants, and celebrity pundits have been groping around for some explanation that would divert blame...

Don’t fight the arrival of Wicked and Gladiator II. Accept them, allow them both to wash over you and leave no trace. Stills from Gladiator II and Wicked. (Paramount / Universal) When I saw Wicked,...

“In the dark times / Will there also be singing?” asked Bertolt Brecht in 1939. The answer, of course, is yes: “There will also be singing / Of the dark times.” Why has poetry been...

As Donald Trump retires from the campaign trail to the halls of his Mar-a-Lago court, the hollowness of his alleged populism is resurfacing. The president-elect has so far named a corporate lobbyist as his chief...

Most of us have a preferred political party. Even if we dislike many of its policies, its rhetoric, or its leader, and see our preference as a compromise, this party is closest to our values...

Three months ago, Australia’s Labor government rushed extraordinary legislation through Parliament to force one of the nation’s largest trade unions, the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union (CFMEU), into administration. The state seized our union’s...

It’s just a few weeks after the most conservative Republican president in a generation convincingly won a second term, causing many to despair. Across the ocean from the United States, a country engaged in apartheid...

Last June I drove to Homer City, Pennsylvania, to talk to Aric Baker, the head of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 459. The Homer City Generating Station, Pennsylvania’s largest coal-fired power plant, was set...

Democrats just helped Republicans give president-elect Donald Trump the potential power to shut down nonprofits under the guise of fighting terrorism — while GOP lawmakers have quietly revealed a new blueprint for defunding organizations they disagree...

There are plenty of real catastrophes in today’s world. But from military build-up to fantasies of mass deportation, right-wingers are promising their supporters better disasters: ones where they get to be in charge. BJP supporters...